By Mike Sherry
Editor
As most congregations can attest, it was hard enough preparing a virtual experience during the High Holidays this year. But try doing it with a temporary spiritual leader who has been on the job for only a matter of weeks.
KU Chabad is rallying around one of its own and his compatriots in the Israel Defense Forces.
Jump online for the next Learn, Laugh and Love program, “Why Go It Alone,” at 1 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 17. This lively interactive session with the Jewish Family Services Older Adult Care Management team and The Jewish Community Center’s Heritage Center Director Sandra Greason will be virtual program via Zoom due to safety and health restrictions.
Enjoy a delicious “last night of Hanukkah” catered curbside Shabbat dinner on Friday, Dec. 18. Dinner will be prepared by Cathy Levin, Kosher Connection.
The following bowlers in Sunday Morning Kansas City B’nai B’rith Bowling League achieved high scores at Ward Parkway Lanes on Nov. 22.
The Shul — Chabad of Leawood is sponsoring a Chanukah Pajamakah Car Parade on Dec. 16.
Each year the local Chabad rabbis from the Kansas City area lead a delegation to the world’s largest rabbinical conference — the International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Emissaries. This year, with the conference conducted virtually, the local Chabad rabbis joined a virtual Zoom conference, which included workshops and discussions pertaining to the far-reaching work that Chabad does worldwide.
The Sarah Peltzman Educational Series, Unit Two, begins Thursday, Jan. 7. Classes will be held 10-11 a.m. via Zoom. The cost is $15 per unit for new students who are not already participating in Peltzman classes.
As students in the University of Kansas Jewish community begin to head home for the semester, KU Hillel is reflecting on its first full semester since the onset of COVID-19.
In this year of COVID-19, with no possibility of an in-person event, Village Shalom has received a blessing and a challenge from a group of donors. Ronnie Baker, Irene Bettinger, Stanley Bushman, Charley Helzberg, and Frank Lipsman have come together with a $25,000 challenge grant in support of Village Shalom’s Ages of Excellence campaign. Ages benefits the one in four healthcare residents who are beneficiaries of this Financial Assistance Program.
